Andrew Moore

Biography

Andrew Moore investigates the intersections of historical moments found within specific locations. Through his vividly colored, large-scale photographs of architectural structures and landscapes across the world, including Cuba, Russia, Detroit, and the Great Plains of the American West, Moore captures a strong sense of place while also complicating our linear understanding of time.

In the Detroit series of decaying and derelict urban structures, the viewer becomes intensely aware of the passing of the years and the impact of economic depression. Yet, more than this, these environments seem to exist outside of temporal limits. We see dense foliage enveloping an old car wash, and a grove of birch trees growing from the ashes of books in a former storage facility, speaking not only to the forces of decomposition but also to the power of transformation and renewal. Moore shows us that human existence takes place within a much longer timeline and a wider context than we are able to control. This is powerfully captured in his more recent series, Dirt Meridian, in which buildings and remnants of habitation appear as isolated objects within the seemingly limitless landscape of the West.

Born in Connecticut in 1957, Moore lives and works in New York City. Since 2004 he has taught in the MFA photography program at the School of Visual Arts, and from 2001-2010 he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. Numerous prominent institutions have held solo exhibitions of Moore’s work, including the Akron Art Museum, the Queens Museum of Art, New York, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, and the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. In 2014 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Moore’s work is represented in numerous public collections in the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the Israel Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Four monographs of his work have been published: Inside Havana (2002, Chronicle); Russia (2005, Chronicle); Detroit Disassembled (2010, Damiani); and Andrew Moore: Cuba (2012, Damiani).

News

ANDREW MOORE | JOSLYN ART MUSEUM OMAHA, NEBRASKA

October 9, 2016 - January 8, 2017

Dirt Meridian: Photographs by Andrew Moore

Photographer Andrew Moore has worked along the 100th meridian for the past decade, drawn to its mythic past and the people who call the High Plains home. Although literally the center of the United States, its sparse population teeters between geographic isolation and its prominent role in national and global markets for agriculture, energy, and natural resources. Moore sets this dynamic against the enduring myths of a quintessentially American landscape, balancing the weight of its past against a complex future.

ANDREW MOORE | AFFORDABLE NEW YORK: A HOUSING LEGACY, MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK

September 18, 2015 - February 16, 2016

Affordable New York traces over a century of affordable housing activism, documenting the ways in which reformers, policy makers, and activists have fought to transform their city. A focus on current and future housing initiatives demonstrates how New Yorkers continue to promote subsidized housing as a way to achieve diversity, neighborhood stability, and social justice.

ANDREW MOORE AND DAVID MAISEL AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON D.C.

ANDREW MOORE WINS GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

Andrew Moore has been awarded a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his photographic series, Dirt Meridian, recently on view at the gallery. The project centers around the 100th meridian west, the longitudinal line which runs through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and is historically regarded as the geographic beginning of the American West.

ANDREW MOORE AT SWARTHMORE COLLEGE

A solo exhibition of Andrew Moore's work in Russia and Detroit, entitled East/West, is on display at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA through February 26, 2014.

ANDREW MOORE AT THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, WASHINGTON D.C.

Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore is on view currently at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. through February 18, 2013. The exhibition was organized by the Akron Art Museum and has previously traveled to the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.

ANDREW MOORE NEW MONOGRAPH AN EXHIBITION DETROIT DISASSEMBLED

On Tuesday, October 9, Andrew Moore will lecture at SVA Theater with poet Philip Levine, the 2011-2012 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Detroit native, Levine wrote the introduction to Moore's book, Detroit Disassembled.

On Wednesday, October 10, 6 – 8 p.m., Yancey Richardson Gallery hosts a book signing of Moore's his new lavishly-scaled monograph, Cuba.

Moore's traveling museum show, Detroit Disassembled, is on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., through February 18, 2013.

ANDREW MOORE EXHIBITIONS AND BOOK RELEASE

Work by Andrew Moore is featured in the photographic survey An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum through May 13, 2012. Moore's work is also featured in Structuring Nature, on display at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery in the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas from May 3 – June 30, 2012. Additionally, the artist's new book, Cuba: Photographs by Andrew Moore (1998-2012), will be released in August.

ANDREW MOORE AND HELLEN VAN MEENE EXHIBITING AT THE ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM

Works by Andrew Moore and Hellen van Meene are featured in the upcoming exhibition, An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum from February 19 – May 13. The museum's photographic survey includes Moore, van Meene, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Larry Sultan, among many others.

ANDREW MOORE AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM

Andrew Moore's solo exhibition - Detroit Disassembled - is on display at the Queens Museum of Art through January 15, 2012. The exhibition features over thirty large-scale photos examining the current state of the Motor City, with a selection of photos from previous bodies of work hanging the museum's mezzanine. Additionally, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired three works, one each from Moore's major series': Detroit, Cuba, and Russia.

ANDREW MOORE SOLO SHOW TRAVELING TO QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART THIS FALL

Andrew Moore's solo show - Detroit Disassembled - travels to the Queens Museum of Art this fall. The show opens August 28 and runs through January 15, 2012. Additionally, the Colby Museum of Art is presenting their extensive holdings of Moore's Detroit series in an exhibition scheduled to coincide with their show American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, which opened July 9.

GALLERY ARTISTS EXHIBITING AT DAVIDSON COLLEGE IN NORTH CAROLINA

Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Andrew Moore, Alex Prager, and Victoria Sambunaris are all included in People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape, a group exhibition at Davidson College, North Carolina, on view through March 6, 2011.

ANDREW MOORE PHOTOGRAPH ON COVER OF ART IN AMERICA

Andrew Moore's photograph Model-T Headquarters was selected as the cover image for the January issue of Art in America. The photograph, from Moore's Detroit series, accompanies the issue's cover story, "End Times Photography" by Max Kozloff.

In Fall 2011, Moore's solo museum show, Detroit Disassembled, will travel from the Akron Art Museum to the Queens Museum of Art.

Andrew Moore's photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut there before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation's industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans.